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I will never forget when I went to get some takeout in the Boston area and the guy said, hold on it's shot! I was like "Well, what happened to it?" "He said he was going to check. He came back with the rest of my order. Apparently "shot" means "short". The complete abolishment of the letter 'R' in the Boston vocabulary is just annoying.
I will never forget when I went to get some takeout in the Boston area and the guy said, hold on it's shot! I was like "Well, what happened to it?" "He said he was going to check. He came back with the rest of my order. Apparently "shot" means "short". The complete abolishment of the letter 'R' in the Boston vocabulary is just annoying.
Good story, that would confuse me too especially if they speak rapidly.
I will never forget when I went to get some takeout in the Boston area and the guy said, hold on it's shot! I was like "Well, what happened to it?" "He said he was going to check. He came back with the rest of my order. Apparently "shot" means "short". The complete abolishment of the letter 'R' in the Boston vocabulary is just annoying.
I find it endearing. One thing that a lot of people from the northeast do that I also do (I grew up around that accent during my formative years and bits of it rubbed off) is to occasionally insert and 'r' where it doesn't belong, specifically if a word ends in a vowel and is before another vowel. I recall telling someone once that I was reading the novel "Reading Lolita(r) in Terhan" (which is a great novel by the way) and then being razed a bit about that by my friends who do not suffer from the same predilection toward "r" abuse as I do.
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They can deny it all they want, but the fact of the matter is that New York is the most wanted accent in the country. Everybody denies it but deep down they wish they had one.
And shut up with the NY accent is uneducated garbage. My father's from Brooklyn and he's a lawyer, he's got one. His whole family has it. My mother's a doctor, she has it. And from being around my family all the time, I have it.
It's not stupid, it's an accent and yeah, it does make people not want to mess with you. I know from firsthand experience at baseball games. Not just me getting into arguments, but other Yankee fans would start a fight with a fan from somewhere else and once that accent came out, that fan would shut his mouth on the spot.
Yeah...we are really scared of some idiot that talks like he's got marbles in his mouth.....I would pretend I was a mute if I talked with an NY accent so as not to be embarassed by it. By the way,if your folks are so educated,why did you turn out like you did??Just a weak seed I guess.
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I will never forget when I went to get some takeout in the Boston area and the guy said, hold on it's shot! I was like "Well, what happened to it?" "He said he was going to check. He came back with the rest of my order. Apparently "shot" means "short". The complete abolishment of the letter 'R' in the Boston vocabulary is just annoying.
I agree! and it's not just Boston, some in NH do it too...my brother and sister in=laws
Soo annoying and they almost do it on purpose I swear.
They didn't even grow up there but think it's cool I guess.
^It's all of eastern MA, NH and RI. RI has their own interesting little take on the Boston accent. It's sort of a hybrid Boston/Long Island accent.
Many Rhode Islanders don't pronounce "H" at the beginning of a word sometimes. for example, "Huge" becomes "Yuge" in RI. It's funny really.
don't make the mistake of believing we all think it's cool. I am not proud when I drop a few "R"'s after a few drinks or when I'm talking fast. It's not a good thing to me. I love regional dialects and how they add to the character of regions, but I don't like the way many of them sound.... including Bostons.
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Oh yeah, i'm one of those uneducated locals NY, that's why I'm a teacher There really is some inferiority complex with Chicagoans. Even my friend from there admitted it. She puts down NY, but she said to me one day, "Many Chicagoans try to convince people they're better than NY, but deep inside, we know NY is superior."
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By the way,if your folks are so educated,why did you turn out like you did??Just a weak seed I guess.
I've never met anyone who had that wish,unless they kept it hid.
